Stephen Gran on 27 Jul 2004 02:18:03 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] [Fwd: Newsgroup postings question - rar and par and how to easily deal with them in Pan]


On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:52:43PM -0400, Michael Leone said:
> OK, I'm using Pan 0.14.2.91 (on a Debian Unstable system). 
> 
> Some things get posted to binary groups that I frequent (and no, it's
> not pr0n :-) as multi-part rar archives, and others with associated
> "par" files. I know the rar are compressed archives of a sort, and the
> "par"s are parity files, so you can reconstruct a complete posting, even
> if all parts don't show up.
> 
> I'm also apparently an idiot, because i can't seem to get this to work.
> :-)
> 
> So I downloaded 63 rar files - file01.rar thru file63.rar. So how do I
> "unrar" them properly? I thought it would be something like cat'ting the
> parts back into 1 big file and "cat *.rar >bigfile.rar" and then "unrar
> -x bigfile.rar", but that doesn't work; it failed on all 63 files. :-)
> 
> I thought maybe just telling unrar to do "unrar -x file*.rar", but that
> doesn't work either. (It seems to want a single archive file to work
> from, but I could be wrong about that). So what simple thing am I
> missing, to extract out the stuff I want from this archive?
> 
> Next, if anybody knows how to tell Pan to do the extracting and decoding
> for me (like it decodes yenc encoded files), I would really appreciate
> it. I haven't found anything to suggest that it can, however.
> 
> Nor have I found anything about how to use those "par" files with Pan.
> I'd prefer Pan to handle all of it, if it could. If not, a pointer to a
> HOWTO or tutorial would be helpful. 

I think 'rar a' does it, but it's been a while.  Install rar (not the
crippled GNU unrar), and take a look at rar.txt for all the messy
details.
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